Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Her dark eyes slid to him. "I can't remember the last time I felt so good in clothes."And he wanted to get her out of them.

The look she gives me is priceless - shock mixed with pure pleasure. I make a note to put that look on her face as often as possible.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.